Recommended to me by a friend, this is not a only cookbook that offers recipes with a limited number of ingredients, but offers recipes suitable for both weekday dinners and informal entertaining. I think it would be useful for a new cook.
There are recipes for some of my favorites: Pasta Puttanesca, Shrimp Scampi, and Gazpacho. I'm delighted to see that there are recipes for the superfoods avocado and sweet patato; Sweet Potato Fries with Chipotle Mayo and Creamy Avocado Toast. And there's lots of recipes I think I'd like to try: Southwestern Skillet, Watermelon, Feta and Tomato Salad, Ramen Noodle Soup (with chicken or vegetable stock, soy sauce and green onions), Tortilla Soup, Pizza Margherita, Lemon Chicken, Shredded Chicken Street Tacos, Italian Sausage and Pepper Skillet, Steak Fajitas and Creamy Cheese Casserole, lots of vegetable recipes, recipes for black and red chili, and a recipe for ratatouille with chicken.
There are dessert recipes too, including a recipe for chocolate cake and another for blueberry crumble.
What's helpful and interesting is that this shortish book (221 pages) offers advice throughout: information on the tools and pans you ought to have, staples you ought to have in your cabinet, how to make eggs (as well as wonderfully simple directions for making an omelette), recipes for salsa, hummus, trail mix, caesar salad dressing and other popular dressings made frequently.
There's a helpful glossary that defines braise, blanch, poach, saute and sear. ,
The small dimensions of the book, and the brief and breezy nature of the information it provides, suggests to me that this will be welcoming and accessible book for someone just starting to cook.
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